About

Austen Ivereigh is a UK-based writer, journalist and commentator best known for his books on and with Pope Francis, and for his role in the media explaining the convictions of the Catholic Church. He is Fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, Oxford and a regular contributor to The Tablet, America magazine and Commonweal, among others. He speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and is in demand as a speaker.

He has authored two authoritative works on the life and reforms of Pope Francis. The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope (New York: Henry Holt, 2014) has been translated into many languages. His follow-up volume on the pontificate, Wounded Shepherd: Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church, appeared in late 2019.

In March-April 2020, after Ivereigh interviewed Pope Francis on the topic of the coronavirus lockdown for The Tablet and Commonweal, they worked together on a book about the pandemic. Pope Francis’s Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future: In conversation with Austen Ivereigh came out in December 2020 in both English and Spanish, as well as many other major languages.

He lives on a small farm in Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border, where since 2019 he and his wife Linda have practised regenerative horticulture, and keep sheep and chickens. Inspired by Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Sì, Ivereigh writes a regular ‘Wild Faith’ column for The Tablet.